Labor

AFGE rally says Hands off My SSA
Domestic News

Detroit AFGE Rally Against Cutbacks and Layoffs

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Federal government workers have been a major target of the current administration. President Donald Trump has established an illegal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is carrying out a campaign of […]
UK Unite members picketing over labor dispute
International News

Birmingham Sanitation Strike Spawns Public Health Emergency in England’s Second Largest City

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A sanitation workers’ strike in the second largest city in England, Birmingham, has prompted the local authorities to declare a major incident in the municipality. Reports indicate that approximately 17,000 tons of […]
Detroit women letter carriers say no to privatization
Domestic News

Postal Workers Lead Fightback

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Gerry Scoppettuolo On Sunday, March 23 thousands of rank and file letter carriers and their supporters rallied at close to 300 cities and post offices across the U.S. to protest the threatened privatization […]
Sean Fain, UAW President
Domestic News

“Free Trade” and Trump’s Tariffs: A Response to Shawn Fain

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Chris Fry Elon Musk and his puppet “King Donald Trump” have laid a political trap against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership and the U.S. working class as a whole with their escalating […]
Detroit MLK Day audience at St. Matthew's -St. Joseph's Church
Domestic News

Detroit MLK Day Continues the Struggle Against Racism, Poverty and Militarism

January 27, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Monday, January 20, 2025, the Detroit MLK Committee held its 22nd Annual day of commemoration for the life, times and contributions of the martyred Civil Rights and Antiwar leader Dr. Martin […]
Domestic News

Detroiters unite to resist Trump, celebrate legacy of MLK

January 25, 2025 fwstaff
  By Cameron Harrison DETROIT—“I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said in his final speech before he was assassinated. The words of […]
Amazon workers on the move.
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Aspect of the Teamster/Amazon Organizing Drive

January 25, 2025 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the recent Teamster union “strike” at Amazon, it is estimated that between 600-1000 Teamster/Amazon workers participated in the job action Christmas week. The number of workers who actually left their trucks […]
October 27, 1951 - Speakers at the Cincinnati founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council. Paul Robeson second from left
Domestic News

Labor Insurgencies: Past, Present and Future

November 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The AFL-CIO’s top labor bureaucracy has often opposed rank and file labor insurgencies, especially where imperialist foreign policy or racism is brought up. In the 1980’s AFL-CIO head Lane Kirkland’s support of […]
Domestic News

United Electrical Workers Statement on the Election

November 12, 2024 fwstaff
By UE Officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This […]
Domestic News

The Bradley Foundation, Project 2025 and the “Wisconsin Austerity Model”

October 30, 2024 fwstaff
By A Union Worker We honor the Indigenous whose stolen land we are on today. And we raise up the latest call from September 2024 by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions: “We write […]